Microsoft bans open source software from the Windows Marketplace

Posted by ghalfacree on Thursday February 17, 2011 @08:59AM
from the thinq.co.uk dept.

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/17/microsoft-bans-open-source-marketplace/

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Re:Microsoft bans open source software from the Windows Mark... by chalst on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:05AM (#2230908)

The arty assumes that open source means share-alike, ignoring the existence of open-source licenses like BSD, Apache, &c, which do not contradict article 5.

Wildeboer's blog post, which this story is based on, is discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2226260

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Re:Microsoft bans open source software from the Windows Mark... by lvh on Thursday February 17, 2011 @05:00PM (#2233060)

As undoubtedly other people have mentioned: they did not ban all open source. They banned GPLv3 and related licenses. (although it's not mentioned in TFA, I think AGPL also is not allowed. Would make sense, since I can just relicense any code under the AGPL.)

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